One day, Mitch is surprised to see Guido in his tower. Guido tells him that he has started a new business called ""Windows by Guido"". Then Guido sees a paraglider in trouble and the paraglider crash-land into the water. Mitch, Stephanie, Matt, Summer and C.J. rescue her. Later the same day, a Captain named Rolf Angstrom visits headquarters and tells the gang he wants to invite them on a cruise. It turns out that the paraglider was his daughter. Stephanie hesitates at first, but Mitch tells her that Captain Thorpe said that they could use some time off. Then they all go and Guido gets to go too because he saw the paraglider first and called it in. Meanwhile, drug dealer Nicholas Rogo is being transported to prison on a desert road. Suddenly his partners Karl, Valana and Cortez arrive and manages to free him. They are planning to go on the same cruise as the Baywatch gang. When Summer leaves her cabin, she sees Rogo in the cabin across the hall, but she doesn't recognize him. Meanwhile, G

The episode was rated 7.22 from 18 votes.

Mitch goes through a tough rehabilitation program. One day when Hobie comes to visit, he wants Mitch to move a can but Mitch can't do it and yells at Hobie. Hobie storms out of the room crying, and Mitch is forced to go after him. Hobie forgives Mitch for yelling at him and they join some other wheel-chair bound guys in a friendly game of basketball. Meanwhile, Summer wants to switch towers with Matt so that she can be closer to Slade. When Stephanie finds out about this, she gets real upset because she really misses Mitch, and can't stand the fact that Summer is thinking of a thing like this when Mitch is going through a tough rehabilitation program. Then Summer apologizes to her and C.J. has a flashback back to ""4.3 Tequila Bay"" when Mitch requested back-up from all available units in order to rescue a paper-bag. Later Riddick go to the rehab center in order to kill Jason. He meets the gang at the elevator and he tells them that he is just a visiting doctor. Then when Mitch is talkin

The episode was rated 7.25 from 16 votes.

The episode starts with an old man on a river trying to get away from two bad guys. But the bad guys, Lonny and Drew, kills him and he ends up in Devil's Mouth. The old man turns out to be Mitch's eccentric uncle Alex. Mitch, Hobie, Eddie and Shauni go to his home in the mountains. Eddie and Shauni are having problems with their relationship. Eddie is going to spend a year in Australia and Shauni is convinced that it will jeopardize their relationship. Later Mitch finds out from the Sheriff that his uncle may have found the golden boot. Two villains named Lonny and Drew believes that too, but Mitch doubts it. Alex left something for Mitch in their secret hiding place, but Mitch doesn't remember where the hiding place is located. During their first evening in the mountains, Mitch and Hobie decide to camp outside Alex's house while Eddie and Shauni checks into a motel. Eddie feels romantic but Shauni who thinks she's pregnant due to a late period,doesn't feel romantic. The next day, Mitc

The episode was rated 7.29 from 28 votes.

A psychopath murderer named Jacob Kilmer escapes from prison and his hurried departure finds him on the Will Rogers Beach, close to Baywatch headquarters. The police close the beach and everyone is cleared from the beach. Lieutenant Sloan from the Police Department, is in charge. When almost everyone has cleared the beach, Kilmer hides himself in Stephanie's lifeguard truck. When Mitch calls her on the radio about some missing children, she lets him know she's in trouble by telling him that she is looking for a child's parents. But the lifeguards doesn't do that, they take the kids to headquarters and let them wait for their parents there. Mitch tells Sloan about this and now everyone knows that Kilmer is in Stephanie's lifeguard truck. Kilmer and Stephanie drive to Summer's tower where Kilmer takes both women hostage. Slade tries to rescue them, by sneaking up to the tower from the ocean. But Kilmer sees him and Slade is shot in the shoulder by Kilmer. Kilmer demands that a helicopter

The episode was rated 7.32 from 19 votes.

The summer is over and school is about to begin. When Slade surfs in the water near the Bremmer's land, Courtney makes a move on him and offers him a sponsor. She spends a lot of time with him at school and Summer gets jealous. When Slade and Summer share a passionate kiss at Matt's beach party, Courtney interrupts them. But Slade has shown her where his feelings are. One day, Slade's father Nicholas pays him a visit. He tells Slade that he will resign from the army and settle down in California. Slade tells him that he will do fine without having him around. Then Nicholas pushes him and tells him to stay in school no matter what, because he can't live on his surfing and then he breaks his surf-board in half. Meanwhile, C.J. has taken the job as a Volleyball coach at Malibu Beach High School. A friend of Matt's named Bear Sutter is a chumash-indian. He claims that the land that is supposed to be taken away in order to build apartments, is holy chumash-land. In order to prove that, he c

The episode was rated 7.32 from 22 votes.

During a routine-patrol, Mitch saves an Italian actress named Lena Fiori from the water. When she leaves the beach, two robbers named Sturgis and Dorsch follow her home and robs her. She calls the police and then Garner calls Mitch about it. He invites her home for dinner where Hobie has cooked a delicious meal. Later, he sends her away to a motel. When Sturgis and Dorsch come to the set where Lena is filming her new movie, she sees them in the audience, because one of them is using her lighter. Mitch runs after them but loses them. Sturgis and Dorsch decide to pay her a visit later on where they plan to silence her. But at the same time, Mitch and Garner arrive and Garner arrests them. Meanwhile, Guido's mom is arriving from Italy and the only problem is that he has told her that he is a lifeguard. He didn't have the heart to tell her that he is just a maintenance man. He convinces Summer and C.J. to help him out and they agree to train him to be a real lifeguard. But of course, they

The episode was rated 7.38 from 16 votes.

C.J. and Stephanie go to Catalina for their women-only-weekend. On their way there, they have to rescue a family from a burning boat. The Coast Guard assist them and asks if they can join them in Catalina. C.J. is very positive about it, but Stephanie points out that they have a women-only-weekend. At Catalina, they meet Clay Burgess in the water. When Roger Lawrence from the Coast Guard arrives, he immediately recognizes Burgess as a former jewel thief who escaped conviction on a technicality. Roger is convinced that Burgess is diving for a hidden loot, a bag full of jewelry. To get to his jewelry, Burgess has to put out some dynamite on some cliffs. Meanwhile, C.J. and Stephanie are inside a cave. When the explosion come, big rocks block the entrance to the cave and C.J. and Stephanie are trapped. When the Coast Guard find their boat and notice that they have been underwater way too long, Roger and Lucas go down looking for them. They are able to find the cave and rescue them. They a

The episode was rated 7.44 from 18 votes.

Drew starts shooting at the raft and the gang take cover behind some cliffs. Then Lonny appears on some cliffs with Shauni. Drew tells them to bring Hobie to him. But instead C.J. goes with Mitch and Eddie behind the raft. Hobie is still behind the cliffs holding up Mitch's helmet. Mitch swims towards the cliffs and climbs up to Lonny and Shauni. Mitch beats Lonny, but he manages to pull Shauni down the cliffs first. Eddie sees this just when he has beaten Drew. The gang then manages to escape from the bad guys. When things have calmed down, Eddie asks Shauni to marry him. Shauni gets upset and tells him that she's not pregnant. But Eddie wants to marry her anyway. They continue their treasure hunt and finally manages to find a cave that looks like Wilma's table from the Flintstones. Mitch climbs down with the help of a rope and he finds the golden boot. When Eddie has pulled up the golden boot, Lonny and Drew come back again. They close the cave and Mitch is trapped inside. But the ga

The episode was rated 7.46 from 24 votes.

Mitch is happy to announce that he is going to work on the beach again, when a new lieutenant arrives to Baywatch. The new lieutenant turns out to be Mitch's old flame Stephanie Holden. Ben meets her first and suspects that Mitch isn't going to like this. When Mitch sees her, he becomes upset and calls Chief Thorpe. Thorpe tells Mitch that it's up to him to decide if she can stay or not. Both Mitch and Stephanie has flashbacks back to 1989 when they first meet. Stephanie was substituting for Jill back then. He met her in the men's locker room. They had a little romance and decided to spend a weekend together in Catalina. But Stephanie never showed up and Mitch was upset for a long time. Now, Stephanie tells him that her ex-husband came to her and wanted her back. She accepted this and left Mitch behind. Mitch and Stephanie rescue a man together and Mitch realizes that she is a good lifeguard. He writes a letter to Chief Thorpe that she can stay. Meanwhile, Matt is ordered to patrol on

The episode was rated 7.50 from 24 votes.

The episode starts with Mitch driving a lifeguard truck on the beach. Suddenly he sees something in the water and calls it in requesting all available units. But the victim turns out to be a paper bag. So about 20 lifeguards was sent to rescue a paper bag. Later when Mitch enters the shower, everybody is wearing a paper bag. Rookie school begins. Guido, an Italian guy wants to become a lifeguard and he bothers Mitch. When Guido enters the meeting room, he sees the terrible mess there and decides to clean the place up. When Stephanie enters, she thinks that everything in the room is new, but Guido has just polished it a bit extra. In the real rookie competition, the rookies are competing in a race called the Gauntlet. And they also race the Gauntlet for practice. When Summer has climbed up to the top of the pier and is about to jump, she chickens out and has to walk back to the beach. On the beach, C.J. starts talking to her and reveals that she had the same problem when she was a rooki

The episode was rated 7.54 from 26 votes.

While Slade is winning a surfing competition in Australia, a diamond-smuggler named Dirk puts some diamonds in a surfboard that looks identical to Slade's. He marks one of the fens, so he can find the right surfboard. When Slade is receiving his trophy, Dirk switches the surfboards and when Slade comes back to California, Dirk and his partner Lila follow him to the beach. When Slade leaves his van to go and sleep on the beach, Dirk enters Slade's van using the keys. Then Matt arrives on his motorcycle and when he sees Slade's door closing, he decides to pay him a visit. But in the van he finds Dirk instead and Dirk pushes him out of the way and jumps onto the back of their jeep. Lila then drives away, but Matt manages to jump onto the back of the jeep. But Dirk pushes him off the jeep and he falls down a hill and lands in the sand. When Matt tells Slade about it, Slade tells him that he still has all of his surfboards left. When the smugglers finds out that they have the wrong surfboar

The episode was rated 7.60 from 15 votes.

Mitch's parents Al and Irene Buchannon, come to visit. Al has never approved of Mitch abandoning is architectural degree. Al wanted Mitch to stay in the family business, but instead, Mitch chose to become a full-time lifeguard. Mitch finds out from his mother that Al is dying of Lymphoma. Because of this, Al wants Mitch to take over his architectural firm. Al wants everyone to leave a ""legacy"" after one dies, such as a building or a home. This is impossible to do if you're a lifeguard. When Mitch have found out that Al is dying, he have second thoughts about returning to his father's firm. However, when Al witnesses a rescue Mitch is forced to do, he suddenly realizes that what he once considered a wasted profession is far more valuable than his own profession. Al finally comes to terms with his son's direction in life. He also tells Mitch that he will leave many more ""legacies"" in the lives he saves than any building he could design. Meanwhile, during the search for a dead body, Summe

The episode was rated 7.64 from 14 votes.

Matt is competing in kickboxing. Mitch, a former champion kick boxer himself, is his coach. Matt easily beats his opponents during the first rounds. His next opponent is an aggressive young fighter named Steve Thorn. During the fight, Steve uses an illegal elbow strike and Matt is knocked unconscious. Matt ends up winning the fight because Steve loses on a technicality. Summer has been watching the fight and she is a bit attracted to Steve. When the fight is over, Mitch is surprised to meet Michael Branson again. Branson used to be Mitch's student in kickboxing during Mitch's time as a Navy SEAL. Mitch got Branson fired from the navy when he broke a man's arm on purpose. After the fight, Summer befriends Steve and finds out he lives in his car. Branson stops by his car and offers him big money if he agrees to fight at his restaurant. Steve accepts Branson's offer and brings Summer to watch. When Branson tells Steve that he going up against him in the ring, Steve no longer wants to figh

The episode was rated 7.73 from 15 votes.

Kaye has returned to Los Angeles again. She has traveled a lot after the closing of her newspaper. An exchange-lifeguard from Australia named Wiley Brown is working at Baywatch. Mitch doesn't like his methods because he captures a dog in trouble with his lasso. Stephanie says he doesn't like him, just because they are exact copies of each other. But Mitch tells her there is something else. In 1983, Mitch was in Australia working as a lifeguard. Then he was forced to rescue a surfer named Sheila Gold. Then when the waves were high, Mitch made a big mistake and placed himself between the victim and the pile. He was knocked out cold and Sheila died. But apparently she was already dead when he rescued her. She had died when she fell of her surfboard. Wiley was there that time and he still remembers. Later weird things happen at headquarters. Matt finds a rattlesnake in Mitch's locker and then when Wiley has fixed Mitch's truck, the brakes doesn't work and Mitch almost dies. When Mitch find

The episode was rated 7.91 from 11 votes.

Stephanie and Mitch are in the water the whole night struggling to stay afloat. In the morning,'Mitch sees a bird and hopes that an island is nearby and fortunately for them, they are lucky and find an island. Then they see a shark in the water. But Mitch kicks the shark and it swims away. When the shark has disappeared, Mitch swims Stephanie to shore. Meanwhile back at the boat, Matt and C.J. win big in the casino. Later in Matt's cabin, C.J. confesses to him that when she grew up in Las Vegas, her grandfather taught her how to play black jack and she ended up with gambling problems. When Matt falls asleep, C.J. goes back to the casino and loses all her money and an extra $ 5 000 and when Matt finds out about this, he lends her the extra money she need. Meanwhile Summer is looking for Mitch and gets worried when she can't find him. When Guido finds Mitch's jacket on the deck, they all get worried. They tell Captain Angstrom about it and he immediately turns the ship around. One of the

The episode was rated 8.20 from 15 votes.